ST. FRANCISVILLE -- The River Bend Nuclear Generating Station will turn 40 years old next year, and federal regulators say it can continue operations for another couple of decades.

"We're closing in on 40 years. We do have approval to go another 20 years past that, and then about halfway through, right around year 50, that's when we'll be submitting the application to operate for another 20 past that, so year 60-80," Site Vice President Philip Hansett said.

WBRZ got the chance to visit the Station, where its representatives talked about the future of River Bend.

While the basics of nuclear power generation have remained the same, the Riverbend plant is adopting new technology suited to the digital world.

"We have in our next refueling outage some modifications for our reactor control a

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